Experience in international development over the past decades has shown that pursuing the right strategies and policies has allowed many countries to achieve economic growth and socially development in spite of their lack of natural resources, while misguided policies have brought ruin to nations that are well endowed.

International development experience further suggests that sustained growth and development require the contribution of the public as well as the private sector; neither can achieve development alone. Moreover, it has been proven that until the public sector is morally and technically equipped to play its catalyst role in the development process, any attempt to promote the private sector remains futile.

Given that vital role, the question one may ask is how to do to enhance the quality and the impact of public policies. Such a question requires a study of the processes of analysis, formulation and implementation of government actions and an examination of the institutional arrangements that are set up for carrying out such processes. The role of government agencies and the manner in which they organize themselves to discharge their functions constitute our primary focus.

To this end, LTA’s mission is to help governments of LDCs improve the quality of public administration systems so that the latter can better support the formulation and implementation of appropriate policies and the effective delivery of public services to the citizens.